I have been in a running conversation with an old friend who
has recently found “God” and it got me to thinking. He thought I was being very hostile and
angry, but I was actually holding back out of politeness. Now, I am hostile to religion, because people
who believe are incredibly annoying and bigoted. It is a club of special people who believe
they are better than everyone else, and who will have paradise while the rest
of us suffer for eternity. That, in and
of itself, is un-American . Sure, you
can belong to this group if you just profess your belief into the very
illogical and obviously false idea that some archaic text is factual. It reminds me of struggle session from Mao’s
China where you had to confess to imaginary crimes. While Christianity is a milder form of
torture and humiliation, it is still torture and humiliation on some
level. That is why I believe that
Christianity (as well as many other religions) is evil.
Allow me to delve into the insanity of Christianity
itself. First, there is the hilarious
idea that Christ died for our sins. Why
did he have to do this? He is supposed
to be God in human form. God created the
rules, so he should be able to change them without the sadism of
crucifixion. Then again, God is supposed
to be perfect, so he would never have made rules he would need to later
change. That shows imperfection.
Second, humans are sinful by nature, but God is perfect and
without sin. I am going to assume that
God wanted us to be with sin, because if he didn’t, then God isn’t
perfect. So the question becomes, is God
without sin because God is above even his own rules? Let’s face it, God has violated the Ten
Commandments many times. He is
especially good at murder. That whole
Biblical flood thing was genocidal. Then there are the times when God told others
to kill. By our law, telling people to
kill (and them doing it) is murder as well.
Then there is knocking up Mary, which is adultery. So if the idea is that God hasn’t sinned as
we have sinned, then it is clearly false.
Then there is Pascal’s Wager. The idea that if you believe in God, and he
doesn’t exist, then you are no worse off than if you didn’t. But, if you don’t, and God does exist than
you are much worse off. The problem
there is the fact that there have been thousands if not millions of gods in the
course of human history. Add to that the
incredibly unlikeliness that Christianity is true (based on the lack of historical
and scientific proof), then you are making a fools wager on par with buying a
lottery ticket. Just like buying a
lottery ticket is a waste of money, following Christianity is a waste of
time. You could justify it by gaining
pleasure from the act of worship, just like you can get pleasure from buying a
lottery ticket and imagining what you would do with the winnings, however, you
would be better off if you learned to gain pleasure from something else
instead.
